Jawaharlal Nehru University students Umar Khalid and Anirban
Bhattacharya, who are facing charges of sedition, surrendered before the Delhi
Police late on Tuesday night after the Delhi High Court directed them to give
themselves in earlier in the day.

The two left the campus in a university vehicle escorted by
guards around 11:45 p.m. and were take into custody by a police team waiting
outside one of the exit gates of the varsity.

Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Deepak Mishra
confirmed the arrest.

Yesterday, Umar and Anirban moved the High Court seeking
protection in order to surrender but the court, while directing the students to
surrender, adjourned the hearing for protection till Wednesday.

The Delhi high court on Tuesday made it clear to the JNU
students, accused in the sedition case, that it cannot allow them to surrender
in the manner they wished as it would amount to going by their "whims and
fancies".

"There are procedures under the statute which have to be
followed," Justice Pratibha Rani said while expressing her disagreement
with the plea of JNU students — Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya — that
they be given a safe passage and be allowed to choose the place of their
surrender.

The five students — Ashutosh Kumar, Anant Prakash, Rama Naga,
besides Umar and Anirban – are wanted by the police in a sedition case.